Word: armada
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stock of early-type P-40s diminished by ground strafing, crashes and a few casualties in the air, they still went by threes and sevens and tens against much larger Jap fighter-bomber formations. Said a spectator in Rangoon: "It looked like a fleet of rowboats attacking the Spanish Armada...
...founded in 1565) was the first white child born in a permanent European settlement in the present U.S. So said Katherine S. Lawson last week, after study of Library of Congress archives. When Virginia was born in 1587, Martin was already some 20 years old and had joined the Armada to fight Sir Francis Drake, plunderer of his birthplace. Where and when he died, Mrs. Lawson did not discover...
...Mexico and South America were given to Indians, and Spaniards often married Indian "princesses" under the delusion that the Aztec nobility, like that of Europe, was hereditary (actually it was earned). As great a blow to the Aztecs as the Spanish conquest was the English victory over the Armada. Mexican communication with the Crown & Church was thereby weakened, and the greedy, uncontrolled colonists only after 1588 began enslaving the Aztecs...
...Netherlands domain. The Japanese generals and admirals might even decide to by-pass Singapore for the time being, to take a fling directly at the Indies. If it succeeded, Japan would be safe; if it failed, Japan was through. It would be as desperate a gamble as the Spanish Armada, and just as pregnant with destiny...
...full-scale invasion-they have not now the equipment to tackle the Germans successfully on the Continent-but rather a series of raids at widely scattered points from Norway to Spain. The British remember well Sir Francis Drake's audacious dash into Cadiz the year before the Armada sailed. He destroyed 10,000 tons of enemy sail that day, and later bragged of "singeing the King of Spain's beard...